Viktor Anpilov

Viktor Anpilov (2 October 1945-15 January 2018) was a Russian communist politician and labor unionist.

Biography
Viktor Anpilov was born was born in Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1945. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972, and he worked as a journalist in Latin America. In 1990, he was nominated for the Congress of People's Deputies, and he became known as a hardline communist and union leader. During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, he was one of the leaders of the anti-Boris Yeltsin uprising, and he also led anti-Vladimir Putin protests in 2007. In 2012, he supported Vladimir Zhirinovsky's nationalist presidential candidacy, and he died in 2018.